Unpaid Commission - 3d Experiment

[Ascension]

Exaggeration would be a good thing for this...like the old board game Life with the little plastic houses and hills.

[Gamerprinter]

I've often found when working with 3D terrain, what looks good in a isometric view is hardly noticeable in a top down - you almost always have to over exagerate in order make the hills and mountains appear as such in a top down. This of course all depends on brightness of the light source, shadow values and textures used. Thus I find creating 3D terrain less useful for cartography than creating structures, statues, trees and other 3D objects.

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[ravells]

Exaggeration would be a good thing for this...like the old board game Life with the little plastic houses and hills.

I LOVED that game as a kid, particularly because the board had those 3d bits to it. Even the poor house looked cool.